ACS

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About

ACS is an freeware crossplatform set of components designed to perform different sound-processing tasks. It supports reading the audio data from CD,different fileformats at example wav,mp3,wma,ogg,mac and others, output to soundcard and files are sure also possible. Between input and output you can work with the data, different converters,mixers and processors are avalible.

Its main caracteristics are :

  • Abstract Layer to include different "drivers"
    • Alsa,/dev/dsp,AOLive,OSS support within linux
    • DirectX,Wavemapper support within Windows
    • Audio playback and capture
    • Simultaneous operations on the same or different devices are allowed.
  • Abstract Layer to make it easy to add new Fileformats already included Fileformats:
    • Wave files/streams support, Raw PCM, MS ADPCM, DVI IMA ADPCM support
    • MP3 format support : Encode mp3 files using LAME, mp3 playback with smpeg library streams conversion using MAD decoder
    • Ogg Vorbis format support : Reading Ogg files/streams (including multi-streamed ones). Storing data in Ogg Vorbis format with wide range of settings for compression/quality tweaks. Ogg comments support
    • FLAC format support : Reading FLAC files/streams, Storing data in FLAC format with wide range of settings for compressiontweaks.
    • Monkey Audio format support (for Windows only)
    • CD-ROM playback and direct CDDA data capture
    • Append data to existing file/stream capability
  • AudioMixer component for mixing/concatenating audio streams
  • InputList component for building dynamically playback/input lists
  • Set of audio converter components
    • Sample converter for bits per sample conversion.
    • Sample rate converter (resampler) using sinc filtering
    • Mono/Stereo conveter
    • Stereo balance control
    • Sound indicator
    • Windowed sinc and Butterworth filters for changing audio spectrum
    • Convolver component for applying custom sound effects
  • Mixer component to use mixer devices

Screenshot

Acs demos.jpg

Author

Author: Andrei Borovsky
LCL Port: Christian Ulrich

License

LGPL

Download

The latest stable release can be found on The ACS Homepage.

CVS

you can checkout the actual source from
CVSROOT=:pserver:cvs@avl.ath.cx:/CVS/acs
Modules:
Src
Demos

Bug reporting / Feature Request

Bug Reporting / Feature Request
Please add your Bugreports/Featurerequests in Lazarus Packages

Change Log

  • 25.08.05 ACS 2.4 first prerelease (cvs)
  • 26.05.05 ACS 2.3 Port

complete Changelog is avalible on Main ACS Page

Status: Beta

Installation

  • Create the directory lazarus\components\ACS
  • On this directory, unzip the files from the zip file
  • Open lazarus
  • Open the package .lpk with Component/Open package file (.lpk)
  • (Click on Compile is only necessary, if you don't want to install the component into the IDE)
  • Click on Install

Help

can be found on Main ACS Page